These groups have varied widely from mere families, primitive, totemic groups, and small modern cults and sects, to the memberships of great denominations, and great, widely dispersed world religions.

These rituals and beliefs eventually evolved over time into the vast array of “ developed ” religions.

These hymns are full of rich, poetic imagery drawn from biblical sources, folk tradition, and other religions and philosophies.

These religions taught the existence of many gods and goddesses who controlled various aspects of daily life.

These early religions may have avoided the question of theodicy by endowing their deities with the same flaws and jealousies that plagued humanity.

These religions each give different answers as to the details, and those details are very important to the adherents of these religions ; but together they share a tradition of asking the same or similar questions, and proposing the same or similar answers, about what, precisely, God is or is supposed to be.

These myths of the earliest stage of humankind have been referred to by various cultures, societies, and religions:

These may reflect changing fashions, changing beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas and new technology which make new styles possible.

These religions are mainly based in the west, the United States and Europe, the surviving remnants of the actual Mesopotamians have shown no interest in these practices, preferring to follow various ancient Eastern Rite Christian denominations.

These religions draw on concepts from Shinto, Buddhism, and folk superstition.

These are, however, synthetic categories and do not necessarily encompass all religions .< ref >

These include not only the ' founders ' of the world's great religions but also gifted and inspired mystics, theologians and preachers who have revived already existing religions when they had fallen into empty platitudes and hollow ceremonialism.

These include: alternative religious movements ( Miller ), emergent religions, ( Ellwood ) and marginal religious movements ( Harper and Le Beau ).

These roles are not necessarily contradictory or even distinguished within the Chinese religious system, which often merge multiple ancient philosophies and religions.

These include Wiccans and followers of nature based religions.

These different groups varied enough for it to be possible to speak of Greek religions or " cults " in the plural, though most of them shared similarities.

These included the German philosopher Schopenhauer, who first read about Buddhism and other Asian religions at an early stage before he devised his philosophical system.

These religions consider that, outside of marriage, deliberate sexual thoughts, feelings, and behavior are sinful ; clerical celibacy also requires abstention from these.

These factions include the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), which converted many of the world's remaining metropolitan centers into highly regulated city-states ; The Order, a religious order which created a new world religion from elements of all major religions and sociopolitical principles ; the " Knights Templar ", who advocate the complete prevention of biomodification ; the " Omar ", a society of heavily biomodified humans possessing a group mind, which runs a global black market, and wishes to become a transhuman race through biomodification ; and ApostleCorp, which seeks to help JC Denton achieve his goal of biomodifying every human on Earth, and thus equalizing the race.

These practices and their underlying assumptions were present in the culture of Greater Magadha at an early date and are likely to have influenced Jainism and other religions.

These include Hinduism, Qigong, Greek philosophy, Greek mythology, Roman history, Roman mythology, parts of the Abrahamic religions, Confucianism, Shintō, and Taoism, not to mention countless cinematic precursors.

These are just another couple of characters to roll.

These men are not callous.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

These are traversed by another line of vaults, and thus rooms, arched on all four sides, are formed.

These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

These are not, however, differences in federal structure.

These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.

These are like the initial ways in which the world forces itself upon the self and thrusts the self into decision and choice.

These are suggestive of Selma Lagerlof.

These assumptions lead to an organization with one man at the top, six directly under him, six under each of these, and so on until there are six levels of personnel.

These ways are absolutely irreconcilable because they offer two different recipes for man's redemption from chaos.

These responses are explicable in terms of characteristics inherent in the crisis.

These discoveries are of present interest chiefly to the scientific community ; ;

These are personality factors ; ;

These are, if the research is done with subtlety and skill, researchable topics, but the research is missing.

These moments are historical events in the lives of individual authors with which the student of comparative literature must be frequently concerned.

These lives are in themselves outside of the moral order and are unburdened with moral responsibility.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

These biographical analogies are obvious, and far too much time has been spent speculating on their possible implications.

These women whose organization grew out of the old suffrage movement are dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's dictum that one must cherish the people's spirit but `` Keep alive their attention ''.

These are, of course, the same people whose support he has only now rejected to seek the independent vote.

These are New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Illinois and Minnesota.

These men are spenders.